Improvement in bottle-wrappers



WILLIAM A. HINMAN.

Improvement in Bottle Wrappers.

N0. 121,718, Patente Dec.12.,'1871.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM A. HINMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOTTLE-WRAPPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 121,718, dated December12, 1871.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. HINMAN, of New York city, in the countyof New York and State of New York, have invented an Improvement inWrappers for Perfume-Bottles, of which the following is a description:

In the drawing, Figure 1 represents a bottle wrapped. Fig. 2 representsthe wrapper.

This invention has rel'. tion to an improvement in the mode of wrappingperfume-bottles; and the novelty consists in the employment of amaterial known as Cuba bast,77 applied in the manner hereinafterdescribed.

I cut the Cuba bast into sheets A of the proper size, and on each sheetin which a bottle is to be inclosed I lay a smaller sheet, B, sufficientin size to cover the extent ot' the label C, pasted on the outside ofthewrapper after in closing the bottle therein. I then roll the bottle,already filled with perfume and properly capped, in the two sheets ofCuba bast. The ends ofthe outer sheet A extend above the neck and capand below the bottom of the bottle, and I twist or compress these endstogether and tie them by means ot' a strip, d, ofthe same material. Ithen paste the label on the outside, surrounding that portion undern athwhich lies the smaller sheet, before mentioned. The bottles are thenready for packing' and transportation, or-for sale. The materialemployed is a light, fibrous, and highly porous bark, and very pliable.lt is, therefore, peculiarly adapted for the purpose of wrappin g smallbottles, such as are used to contain perfumery. It makes the mostconvenient and attractive wrapper for small bottles that can be usedwith the same advantages. Its pliability allows i'th to be easilytwisted or compressed at the ends, as well as wrapped around bottles,without being broken 5 but in order that the outer sheet may embrace theneck of the bottle evenly, I split it in several places from the topedge down about one-third its full length. This allows the differentparts to overlap each other, without diiiculty, in nice order. Itconstitutes an excellent packing to prevent the bottles from breakage intransportation 5 and lastly, one of its most important advantagesresults from its eX- treme porosity, which allows perfume to exhalethrough it so that its odor may be freely detected without opening it.

The object of the small sheet, which is inclosed between the outerwrapper and the bottle, is to allow the label to be attached to theoutside in such a manner as to keep the paste from entering the pores,and by sticking to the bottle prevent its withdrawal without fracturingor destroying the wrapper. The bottle may either be kept in thiswrapper, or taken out by untying the top.

The inner sheet cannot well be used any longer than speciiied, as thenecessity of tying the top and bottom ot' the Wrapper would render itinconvenient.

Having described my invention, l claim- In a wrapper for bottles, madeof Cuba bast, the outer sheet A, split in the manner described, andapplied to the bottle by being tied at both ends, in combination withthe inner sheet B, arranged as described, and for the purpose specilied.

WILLIAM A. HINMAN.

Witnesses:

GEO. P. GOEE,

Taos. A. GONNALLY. (169)

